I don't know how to say this but I'm going to try and say something which
some may find useful.
As long as you think you have a better solution than vo, you will never
learn the power of it. I went through this thing where gee, I can use
jaws so much faster than vo and then one day, found myself breezing
through web sites and using things like the item chooser, the links list,
the find commands on the mac and one day, I picked up my pc after a long
time of not using it and just could not use jaws as efficiently any more.
what with all those keystrokes, jumping in and out of forms mode and so
on, I found the mac finally to be much more efficient. I then did some
analysis for hard factual data and realized that what I was experiencing
was born out. fewer keystrokes are necessary. less guess work is
necessary. navigation is easier, getting to what is needed or desired is
easier.
This is not a me thing. this is not a preference thing or an us vs them
thing, I am glad jaws was around when I needed it and didn't have
anything else. You do though have to apply yourself to the mac as though
you have nothing else to use to realize the full power of it.
On Aug 3, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Ricardo wrote:
Hi Russ,
I've had a mac for 14 months and I too find using the keystrokes to be
second nature. I must say though I use my windows Pc for my intensive
web browsing sessions. I just don't like the internet on the mac using
voiceover in comparison to windows with jaws. Don't get me wrong, The
browser with voiceover is useable on the mac, but I just feel like I can
navigate quicker on my windows machine.
Ricardo
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From: "Russell Solowoniuk" <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:14 PM
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [macvoiceover] Ready to take the plunge, but...
Hi all,
Okay, I'm ready to take the plunge and buy an iMac 20", but have just
one final question for everyone before I do...
I'm sure, like me, most of you have come from using Windows with either
Jaws or WindowEyes. For those of you who have been using the Mac for a
while now, would you say that you're as productive on the Mac as you
once were on Windows? I mean, for me, using Jaws is second nature to
me... I don't even need to think about what keystrokes to use, I just
interact with whatever program I need to to complete a given task. Now,
I know I've also been using Jaws for some 15 years now, so don't expect
to get to this level of proficiency overnight, but what do you long time
Mac users think? Has using the VO keystrokes become second nature to
you? Once one uses the Mac for a while, does navigating in Safari
become as easy as navigating IE with Jaws or WE?
Thanks for any and all opinions!
Russell
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